[wisb] Texas Whooping Crane Deaths (no sightings)
- From: Brad Webb <Brad@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Wisconsin Bird List <wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:01:02 -0600
Conservation Groups Accuse Texas Commission of Contributing to Whooping
Crane Deaths
Last winter 23 whooping cranes died from starvation during their stay in
Texas. This was about 10 percent of the entire flock of one of the
world’s most endangered birds. This flock of whooping cranes, one of
only two in the world, spends the summers in Wood Buffalo National Park
in Alberta, Canada.
Now the Texas-based Aransas Project, a coalition of environmental
groups, has filed a lawsuit against the Texas Commission on
Environmental Quality. The suit claims that the commission authorized
diversions that lessened the flow of water into San Antonio Bay. This
increased the salinity levels in Gulf estuaries, which resulted in a
dramatic drop in the food supply for the wintering cranes.
The second flock of whooping cranes, which spends the summer in
Wisconsin and winters in Florida, is currently making the trip south.
During the migration one of the whooping cranes was shot dead near
Cayuga, Indiana.
Regards,
Brad Webb
Watertown, Dodge County
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